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"Architects' Journeys" brings together a cross section of
contemporary architects, historians and theorists to reconsider the
role that travel has played in architectural practice from the
early twentieth century to the present. Looking beyond the model of
enlightened tourism based on the legacy of the Grand Tour, the
book's contributors investigate travel as a form of displacement,
prefiguring the emergence of the figure of the global architect in
the late twentieth century. Designed by the award-winning design
studio Project Projects, the book features writings by an
international group of innovative thinkers in the field including
Ruben A. Alcolea, Beatriz Colomina, Kenneth Frampton, Hector
Garcia-Diego, Carlos Labarta, Jose Angel Medina, Juan Miguel
Otxotorena, Spyros Papapetros, Jose Manuel Pozo, Galia Solomonoff,
Jorge Tarrago and Mark Wigley.
Does the recent explosion of the architectural manifesto signal a
new urgency of the form, or does it represent a hopeless effort to
resuscitate something that has outlived its useful lifespan? "After
the Manifesto" brings together architects and scholars to revisit
the past, present and future of the manifesto. In what ways have
manifestos transformed the field over the last 50 years, and in
what ways has the manifesto itself been transformed by new modes of
communication? New writing by Ruben Alcolea, Craig Buckley, Beatriz
Colomina, Carlos Labarta, Felicity D. Scott, Bernard Tschumi,
Anthony Vidler, Enrique Walker and Mark Wigley is interwoven with
key manifesto documents from the last 100 years, by Antonio
Sant'Elia, Archigram, Constant, Le Corbusier, Yona Friedman, Hans
Hollein, Kazimir Malevich, Kisho Kurokawa, Alexander Rodchenko,
Superstudio, Aldo van Eyck, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Robert
Venturi, Lebbeus Woods, Bernard Tschumi and Tristan Tzara, among
others.
An innovative look at the contribution of montage to
twentieth-century architecture Graphic Assembly unearths the role
played by montage and collage in the development of architectural
culture over the past century, revealing their unexamined yet
crucial significance. Craig Buckley brings together experimental
architectural practices based in London, Paris, Vienna, and
Florence, showing how breakthroughs in optical media and printing
technologies enabled avant-garde architects to reimagine their
field. Graphic Assembly considers a range of architects and
movements from the 1950s through the early '70s, including Theo
Crosby, Hans Hollein, and John McHale; the magazine Clip-Kit; and
the groups Archigram, Superstudio, and Utopie. It gives a thorough
account of how montage concepts informed the design of buildings,
prototypes, models, exhibitions, and multimedia environments,
accompanied by Buckley's insightful interpretations of the iconic
images, exhibitions, and buildings of the 1960s that mark how the
decade is remembered. Richly illustrated with
never-before-published material from more than a dozen archives and
private collections, Graphic Assembly offers a comparative overview
of the network of experimental architectural practice in Europe. It
provides a deep historical account of the cut-and-paste techniques
now prevalent with architecture's digital turn, demonstrating the
great importance of montage to architecture past, present, and
future.
An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and
1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture,
as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate.
Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this
period that were published in over a dozen cities. The book brings
together a remarkable range of documents and original research
which the project has produced during its continuous travels over
the last four years starting with the memorable exhibition at the
Storefront for Art and Architecture in November 2006. The book
features transcripts from the Small TalksA" events at Storefront in
which editors and designers were invited to discuss their
magazines; a stocktaking of over 100 significant issues that tracks
the changing density and progression of the little magazine
phenomenon; transcripts of more than forty interviews with magazine
editors and designers from all over the world; a selection of
magazine facsimiles that have been fully reproduced at
three-quarter scale; and a fold out poster, inspired by the
exhibition's printed wallpaper, that offers a mosaic image of more
than 1,200 covers examined during the research. Just as each
iteration of the exhibition is an open-ended collaboration with the
visitors and with a different group of editors, institutions, and
collectors who provide a different set of original magazines in
each city, this catalogue documents a work in progress, hoping to
stimulate further discussion and research. The book features
original by a galaxy of remarkable magazine makers: Takefumi Aida
and Minoru Takeyama, Ernesto Alva, Jean Aubert, Isabelle Auricoste,
Stephen Bann, Stefano Boeri, Oriol Bohigas, Yve-Alain Bois, Andrea
Branzi, Pierre Clement, Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, Peter Crump,
Pietro Derossi, Peter Eisenman, Gunther Feuerstein, Hal Foster,
Kenneth Frampton, Mildred Friedman, Mario Gandelsonas, Edith
Girard, Olivier Girard, Jorge Gleason Peart, Nancy Goldring, Steven
Holl, Hans Hollein, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Rosalind Krauss, Ugo La
Pietra, Miguel Lawner, Lisa Licitra Ponti, Chip Lord and Curtis
Schreier, Jacques Lucan, Alessandro Mendini, William Menking, Robin
Middleton, Hans Mol, Rafael Moneo, Peter Murray, Patrice Noviant,
John Outram, Grahame Shane, Dennis Sharp, Alison Sky, Manuel de
Sola-Morales, Philip Steadman, Suzanne Stevens, Bernard Tschumi,
Roel van Duyn, Anthony Vidler, Stanislaus von Moos, Michael Webb,
David Wild, James Wines, Tom Woolley Beatriz Colomina is Professor
of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and
Modernity at Princeton University. Craig Buckley teaches at the
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation,
Columbia University, where he is also the Director of Print
Publications. Clip/Stamp/Fold Research Team: Craig Buckley,
Leonardo, Diaz-Borioli, Anthony Fontenot, Urtzi Grau,, Lisa Hsieh,
Alicia Imperiale, Lydia Kallipoliti, Olympia Kazi, Daniel
Lopez-Perez, Joaquim Moreno, Irene Sunwoo.
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